Hi there! My name is Matt Suiche, currently serving as the Director of Incident Response R&D at Magnet Forensics (MAGT:TO). Our organization is passionately dedicated to justice and protecting the innocent, a mission we embarked on more intensely after the 2022 acquisition of my cybersecurity start-up, Comae Technologies.
My life-long fascination with learning and understanding complex systems first led me to cybersecurity. My teenage years were spent immersed in reverse engineering, which ignited a profound curiosity about technology that continues to this day. I’ve since explored various fields including operating systems architecture, programming languages, virtualization, modern web application development, and generative art. Furthermore, I’ve delved into numerous domains such as privacy, surveillance, forensics, blockchain, and community development among others.
Magnet Forensics, a developer of digital investigation solutions for more than 4,000 enterprises and public safety organizations in over 100 countries, announced the acquisition of the strategic IP assets of Comae Technologies.
As part of the acquisition, Comae founder Matt Suiche will lead a memory analysis and incident response research and development team at Magnet Forensics, where he will further develop a memory analysis platform and integrate the technology into the company’s existing solutions.
The recent SolarWind’s hack which resulted in a backdoor version of their SolarWind Orion product which counts 33,000 customers has been all over the news in the past few weeks - most things have been said and repeated, although there are few notes that I mentioned on Twitter which I would like to compile in a blogpost for perenniality.
First of all, I would like to point out to the presence in the backdoor process blacklist (the full list can be found on Itay Cohen’s repository) of several processes that can be used for either:
GitHub Repository: https://github.com/msuiche/ruby-square Introduction 🔗In May, Microsoft announced a bounty for their new IoT platform called Azure Sphere. The interesting part about it is that it’s created with security in mind, which is a much needed initiative, so we decided to take a look.
While we didn’t find any issues worth reporting, we thought it would be a waste not to share what we’ve learned. Hopefully, this will be useful for others wanting to research the platform or those considering to use it for their projects.
